The Game Awards 2015

Last Year there was that SMM trailer which showed off that SMB3 and (I think...?) SMW would be in the game. That I thought was amazing. I hope there will be something big this year as well, in the form of a trailer as done last time.

^ They're really not, and did Mortal Kombat X and a new Tekken not just release this year? :p

EDIT: Also Smash didn't even release this year. Not sure what point you were trying to make. But regardless I like your awards, I just really think those should be separate, they're completely different genres, almost nothing like each other.

The awards were chosen wisely, although game of the year DEFINITELY should not have been Witcher 3. It's not a bad game by any means of course, but there were sooo many more deserving of the award, including ones that weren't even nominated for it. (*cough*Splatoon*cough*) It was a fine show although not as interesting as last year.

^ Super Mario Maker? I'm not sure. It doesn't have multiplayer of any kind so I don't really see how it's the type of game you would play with family. Gameguy mentioned passing the Gamepad around, so I guess that, I have no idea. It's one of the awards I was confused with, along with GOTY, but most of them I feel were given pretty fairly so I'm not really going to complain considering I didn't agree with like any last year.

Zero Revolution wrote:^ Super Mario Maker? I'm not sure. It doesn't have multiplayer of any kind so I don't really see how it's the type of game you would play with family. Gameguy mentioned passing the Gamepad around, so I guess that, I have no idea. It's one of the awards I was confused with, along with GOTY, but most of them I feel were given pretty fairly so I'm not really going to complain considering I didn't agree with like any last year.

I mean, the online multiplayer is a huge chunk of the game. But yeah as for local multiplayer, there isn't much.

The 2015 show had 2.3 million viewers, and a 2016 show is very likely.

- 2.3 million viewers- Game Awards 2016 show is very likely- next show may have eSports competition during the day of the event- top streaming platforms were Twitch and YouTube- show trended worldwide on Twitter, with more than one billion impressions with tweets using #TheGameAwards- this ended up doubling last year's social impact- more than 175,000 different people used that hashtag, writing about 279,000 tweets- top streaming channels saw more than half a million comments- Snapchat was used to deliver virtual access to the show and after party- money-wise, Keighley believes the show broke even this year.

Eh, I don't think it was as exciting this year as last, but the awards were more worthy of being given this year in most cases. (outside of GOTY) But it's nice there will be one next year, it's always something to look forward to.